Stock Photo - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 4243 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (suited left) and Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) walk to a Soyuz simulator October 31 during the second day of qualification exams. Cristoforetti, Shkaplerov and NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts are preparing for launch in the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Nov. 24, Kazakh time, for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station..NASAStephanie Stoll.